Refractive index modification using fs-laser double pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 10149-10153

  Wortmann, Dirk ^a   Ramme, Mark ^a   Gottmann, Jens ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSED SILICA; GLASS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEGUIDES;

DOUBLE PULSE EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL APERTURE; SELF TRAPPED EXCITONS (STE); TRANSIENT COLOR CENTERS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 34547790310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010149     Document Type: Article

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